]]>https://shabbysnap.com/2017/04/02/napowrimo2017-day-2-disappointment/feed/0shabbysnap#Napowrimo2017 Day 1: Sadness https://shabbysnap.com/2017/04/01/napowrimo2017-day-1/
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But when she sneaks up on you, crouches beside you, perches on your shoulder or curls up in your lap, you cannot help but participate in the untimely visit.

There is a substantial weight, a heaviness, a thickness to her mass. In recorded history, there have been times when she’s briefly taken ones breath away.

Weather-like events occur among her presence, quaking brings about floods and tidal waves. Whirling of air suction (or intake) can violently trigger the bone-chilling siren wails. Her aroma is salty, which if endured/inhaled long enough will deplete vital stores of both mind and body.

There is symbolism in her skin, a variation of one hue, and often with a gentle hint of ugly greenish-blue.

Her skills for present, future and past include, and are not limited to, narrowing pathways, blocking goals, sharp trajectory turns or even laugh stifling.

Often, but not always, she can awaken the sleep, or conversely, prevent sleep from occurring. Nightmares of what used to be, devastation, loss, falling out teeth.

Creature
Look at you
Slender, small and furry too
Simple needs
You have but three
Feed, water and pet me
Blankets wrap
Bedding nap
Walk the block
Sunbathing sloth
Mailmen flaunt
Squirrels taunt
Kennel for safety’s sake
Creature Roo
Look at you
Tired, lazy and oh so cute

Widely silenced
Hushed and stilled
Forgotten, not moved to action
Political infraction
Effects wears off
Diluted trains of thoughts
Onward in the chore
Wheel turns once more
Awaken, voice of importance
Rise up, wounded women

Victims of sex crimes
Shut up
Mothers of children
Silence yourselves
People with moral standards
Ignore the issue
Oh wait! That already happening

Lawyers: I need a person to defend me in my quest to reclaim my personal rights to privacy while shopping at Target.
I’m not waiting until a unisex bathroom is installed, because they didn’t wait to turn the green light to all men on my nakedness or safety!

If they’d like to retract the statement with the clause of “we will make any and all accommodations with port o potties outside until renovations to install the most viable option of unisex bathrooms can occur” then I won’t pursue the lawsuit.
I’m an angry mother of two teenage daughters who needs to right the wrong of the sexual violence that was done unto me.
I will not be quiet!

It isn’t about me not being open-minded, because I am open and okay with equal rights, gay marriage, insurance rights and equal pay. It’s about Target not being considerate of the millions of men and women who’ve been abused. It’s more about a corporation trying to bully an entire society. It’s more about our constitutional right to vote on issues that change or alter the way we do life: especially when it comes to safety, mental illness, disabilities and so on. These are issues for the American people to speak on, not a corporation.
It’s more about the people claiming to be all accepting while not considering the fact that they are discriminating and ignoring the rights of women!